Becoming Bobbie - R. J Stevens

Growing up as a bona fide tomboy in the shadow of her fashionable, ladylike mother, Bobbie lives for three things: cars, music, and time with her dad, an uncomplicated mechanic. She finds her friends in songs, and joy in the cool logic of working on engines - fixing what's broken. But what's broken in her own family is beyond her control, and as they move from place to place, begins to wonder if she'll ever find somewhere she can be herself. But at a new school she meets Agatha Claradya, her sympathetic English teacher, and as new feelings surface, Bobbie learns to find a place for love.